web scraping

Currency & Gold Prices Scraper

A lightweight Laravel application that retrieves live currency exchange rates and gold prices from a public data source using web scraping techniques, processes the extracted information, and presents it through a clean and responsive interface.

Project Overview

This project was developed as a practical example of implementing web scraping with Laravel. It demonstrates how to retrieve HTML pages, parse their content, extract structured financial data, and present it through a simple web interface.

Application Features

• Live currency exchange rate scraping.
• Gold price scraping.
• HTML content parsing and structured data extraction.
• Clean and responsive user interface.
• Arabic date and time formatting.
• Switch between currency and gold price views.
• Real-time data presentation.

Scraping Workflow

• Send HTTP requests to the target website.
• Retrieve the HTML response.
• Parse HTML using CSS selectors.
• Extract currency and gold price data.
• Render the processed data using Blade templates.

Technologies Used

Project Goals

• Demonstrate practical web scraping using Laravel.
• Extract and process structured financial data.
• Display live currency and gold prices.
• Provide a simple and extensible scraping architecture.
• Serve as a foundation for future data aggregation projects.